Nausėda says Lithuania receives warnings of possible provocations

Lithuania receives regular information about possible or planned provocations, but President Gitanas Nausėda said he was unsure whether they should be discussed every day, LRT reported.

“We constantly receive one kind of information or another about possible or planned provocations that could target certain sites. I just do not know whether there is any point in talking about them every day,” Nausėda told journalists in Šventoji on Friday.

He said Lithuania was living in a geopolitical reality that could not currently be changed because it had “an aggressive neighbour” interested in maintaining an atmosphere of uncertainty, fear and anxiety.

Nausėda said undemocratic regimes were unable to create prosperity for their own people and therefore sought to divert citizens’ attention to external issues.

“There is only one way to resist this today: not to talk about it every day, but to act. And we are acting. Poland is acting, neighbouring countries are acting, NATO as a whole is acting, and we will continue to do so,” he said.

His comments followed a report by Poland’s TVP World that Polish special services coordinator Tomasz Siemoniak had briefed Prime Minister Donald Tusk on security-related information discussed during a meeting with CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

Europe has recently faced what the article described as sabotage and provocations linked to the Kremlin. The latest widely reported incident was an alleged Russian attempt in August to carry out a “hybrid attack” at a German airport using a drone loaded with explosives.

Berlin last week accused Moscow over an incident at Leipzig Airport, which the European Union said bore all the hallmarks of “state-sponsored terrorism”. EU countries are considering new sanctions in response. The article said the 21st sanctions package had damaged Russia’s economy, although analysts considered its deterrent effect limited so far.